What you want from a holiday is a happy medium between activity and relaxation.
(often + between)I'm either exercising all the time or I'm doing nothing but I can't seem to find a happy medium.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
happy medium — noun A prudent or sensible middle course • • • Main Entry: ↑happy * * * happy medium see ↑medium, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑happy happy medium : a good choice or condition that avoids any extremes … Useful english dictionary
happy medium — If you reach a happy medium, you are making a compromise; reaching a conclusion or decision … The small dictionary of idiomes
happy medium — index compromise Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
happy medium — noun singular a way of doing something that is between two extreme positions or is satisfactory to everyone … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
happy medium — noun A balanced position between two opposite extremes. The tone of the paper strikes a happy medium between layman approachability and technical accuracy … Wiktionary
a happy medium — a/the happy ˈmedium idiom something that is in the middle between two choices or two ways of doing sth • She tried to strike a happy medium between making the questions too hard and making them too easy. Main entry: ↑happyidiom … Useful english dictionary
the happy medium — a/the happy ˈmedium idiom something that is in the middle between two choices or two ways of doing sth • She tried to strike a happy medium between making the questions too hard and making them too easy. Main entry: ↑happyidiom … Useful english dictionary
happy medium — Synonyms and related words: abnegation, abstinence, average, balance, calm, calmness, center, compromise, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, dispassion, evenness, fence, generality, gentleness, golden mean, half measures, half… … Moby Thesaurus
strike a happy medium — {v. phr.} To find an answer to a problem that is halfway between two unsatisfactory answers. * /Mary said the dress was blue. Jane said it was green. They finally struck a happy medium and decided it was blue green./ * /Two teaspoons of sugar… … Dictionary of American idioms
strike a happy medium — {v. phr.} To find an answer to a problem that is halfway between two unsatisfactory answers. * /Mary said the dress was blue. Jane said it was green. They finally struck a happy medium and decided it was blue green./ * /Two teaspoons of sugar… … Dictionary of American idioms
